/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.9430438]

Whats your favorite pop sci book, /sci/?

[Anonymous No.9430444]

>>9430438
How much "believable sci" does it have to be?

[Anonymous No.9430453]

[Anonymous No.9430454]

>>9430444
Not at all. As long as it's based on science in some way

[Anonymous No.9430456]

>>9430438
Any popsci that skips over the basics is garbage not worth the paper it's printed on.

[Anonymous No.9430472]

>>9430456
Those aren't pop sci books. Pop sci are meta books about science, they don't actually teach you anything

[Anonymous No.9430474]

>>9430438
If you want hard sci-fi:

Greg Egan - The first 3/4 of "Diaspora"
and also the first 3/4 of "Schild's Ladder")

All of Egans work I have read so far is very hard scifi until the 3/4 point where it then becomes speculative scifi. But very interesting!


Ted Chiang - Stories of your life and others (which is an anthology, but I really like "Understand", "Divide by Zero" and "Story of Your Life")

Poul Anderson - Tau Zero

Joe Haldeman - The Forever War

[Anonymous No.9430675]

>>9430438
Probably this

[Anonymous No.9430719]

>>9430453
This any good? (I'm in particle physics)

[Anonymous No.9430729]

>>9430474
> Joe Haldeman - The Forever War

I know you are asking for pop sci, but if you haven't read this book, you've really missed an important work of real art. Not just Ï go to an expensive college""kind of art, but real art. Seriously, read this.

For pop sci (as I understand it you want "light"reading material, right? Like Star Wars or Star Trek?), the nicest pop sci book I had read was either pic related or ... Fuck, I remembered a minute ago but was distracted for a second and now I can't remember the second book.

[Anonymous No.9430779]

>>9430719
You want mathematics and particle physics that is almost realistic? You want __REAL__ mathematics references in your scifi story? Like real university level, real scientific maths

Seriously, read Greg Egan.First "Schild's Ladder".


You want to read something that only mathematic or physic students can really appreciate? Then if you want to dive into the direction of computers or AI more, read "Disapora".

After that, if you want more mindfuck, read "Axiomatic" (it's an anthology) it's not math centered though. But each story is worth it!

Then I think for a hard scifi math adoring student it is a good time to read Ted Chiangs "Story of your life and others". It's also an anthology, but Greg Egan uses "real life math" differently to Ted Chiang and Chiang's "Division by Zero" is a genuinely scary, REAL math crime novel.

Then, after you've read those, please allow yourself the pleasure to read "Exhalation" by Chiang. It's only like 20 pages but it is sooooo good!

[Anonymous No.9430795]

>>9430779
And if you liked those, please there's two more stories you must read:

"Understand" by Chiang (which fucked with MY head a lot)
"Learning to Be Me" by Chiang which fucked with my brother's head a lot)

[Anonymous No.9430798]

>>9430438
This collection.

(This teaches more about Real Science than any of those meme Pop-Sci Books)

[Anonymous No.9430814]

>>9430729
I just re-remembred the second book, it was "Flashforward".

It's not that good of a book though. I have read it and it's OK but not special. There's some forced "Religiousity" at the end of the book which comes out of nowhere.A Deus Ex Machina.

[Anonymous No.9430826]

Geez I hope the motherfucker who originally opened this thread is still there.

[Geometric Unity No.9430861]

I also enjoyed Zukov's book: "The Dancing Wu Li Masters."

Also, you may enjoy my book which is more tyechnical than pop-sci but so technical that it could never become popular.

The General Relevance of the Modified Cosmological Model
http://vixra.org/abs/1712.0598

[Anonymous No.9431465]

I enjoyed this one.

[Anonymous No.9431479]

Does this count?